Category Archives: malaria

By Dr Aubrey Cunnington, Clinical Senior Lecturer in Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Dr Jake Baum, Reader in Parasite Cell Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London World Malaria Day is a good time to reflect on successes in the … Continue reading →

By Professor Kathryn Maitland, Professor of Tropical Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Director of Centre for African Research and Engagement, Imperial College London Approximately 1200 African children are estimated to die from malaria every day, accounting for the vast majority of the global deaths from … Continue reading →

By Professor Kathryn Maitland, Professor of Tropical Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Director of IGHI’s new Centre for African Research and Engagement (ICCARE). Across large parts of sub-Saharan Africa the major rains have got underway; which typically means that in a … Continue reading →

By Alison Reynolds and Dr Thomas Churcher from Imperial’s Malaria Modelling Research Group World Mosquito Day (20th August) commemorates the discovery that mosquitoes transmit the parasite that causes malaria, made in 1897 by British doctor Ronald Ross. A hundred and … Continue reading →